St. Petersburg: Close readers will remember the earlier entry here that detailed the WARN fight against the Wal-Mart proposal to build a super center on wetlands on Gandy Road in St. Petersburg. The day after a heavily attended and well covered roadside protest including all of the WARN alliance of organizations from ACORN to Sierra Club to …
Category: Labor Organizing
Who Was that Masked Man?
Washington: Sometimes my colleague and comrade, Helene O’Brien, ACORN’s Field Director, kids me by saying, in what I sometimes pretend is sincere sympathy, rather than bitter irony, that, “It’s not easy being, Wade, the chief organizer, is it?” And, in that vein, since I have your attention now that I’m marching as part of the union …
Does it Matter to Central Labor Councils?
New Orleans: As many measure the wake of the hurricane of Chicago splitting the AFL-CIO, there have been several articles about the impact on the “field troops” at the grassroots level in the Central Labor Councils. The quotes in the news have focused on a lot of hand wringing about budget shortfalls and diminished capacities, all …